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Largest Library in the World. W/r The largest library in tho world is the National Library of Paris, containing more than 2,000,000 printed volumes and about 200,000 manuscript*:. Tho ?rii>i?u Miikoudi has a collection of about 1,500,000 volumes ud exceeds the St. Petersburg Imperial Library only by 12,000 volumes. j* The Royal Library at Munich con' tains about 000,000 printed works, and it is exceptionally rich in pamphlets, while tho Berlin Royal Library has 800,000 volumes, that of Copenhagen 510,000, that of Dresden and of tho Univorsity Library at Gottingen orich has 500,000. The Imperial Library at Vienna has 400,000, while tho University Library iu tho same metropolis bus 370,000. ? New York Independent. Odd Theory as to Petroleum, The rather interesting theory is held by a Russian geologist that petroleum is produced by water which ponetratos the earth's crust and comes in contact with glowing carbides of metals, especially of iron. The water is decomposed into its constituent gases, tlio oxygeu uniting with tho iron, while the hydrogen takes up the carbon iukI ascends to ft uiglior region, where part of it in condeuaod into mineral oil ?nd port remains as iifttnrftl gas to escftpo wherever and whenever it ea11 llud an outlet. ? Meehftuieul News. IllOltiis. PoiKlor^ Per Acre, This astonishing yield was reported by Abr. Halm, of >Vlsc instn. lmt .Sal/.or's potatoes alway3 get there. The editor of the Rural New Yorker reports a yield of 736 bushels and '? pounds per acre from ono of Maimer's early pntatojs. Above 1110 bushels are from Snizor'new seedling llundrel-fohl. His new early potato. Lightning Kxpross, has a record of AC} bushels per acre. Ho oilers potatoes us low as $?.S0n barrel,and the best potato planter in the world for but If you wii.i.cut tiiis out ami SKNIi it with Be postage to the .! dm A. tSnlzer Seed t'<> I .a Crosse, Wif., you will rccaivo fruo his iiuvm. moth potato catalogue ;\n<l a |ock?gv of sixlecn-ilny "Uet There, Eli," r.i'llsh. A Farmkus aro establishing colonics In Texas. rwm a1 nre? Savannah, New York. wrongous jpuuches Neck Lanced Without Relief Hood's Sarsaparilla Purifies ths Blood and Conquers. I. Hood <Xr Co., Lowell, Mass.: "Gentlemen: I had lar^e scrofulous hunches on niv neck for 7 years. I treated with different physicians ami trhsl many remedies but Did Not Get Any Help for them. I went to Home, N. Y., and hud them opened.but this save me only temporary relief. aty physician then tirtrc<l me to taKe ikmmi s Karsapnrilla, ami liefore I had used one bottle the bunches bc^an to grow better. To-day I Am O. K., nnd the trouble has not retitrneil since I took Hood's Sarsnparilln, only the scars IteiiiK left. Hood'sSa,r> Cures T'pon my recommendation and the effects of Hood's Snrsaparilla in my case the druiotist has sold n ttront dent of Hood's Sarsanarilla in this pliice." J.W. tioss. Savannah, New York. I loon's Pills.ire prompt ami clllclent, yet easy In vctlon. Kohl by all ilrtiRitists. 25 cents. CLllJ kLIDl fflO A complttiiet of oar 11 advertisement?, of nhirli thins No. 1* Tltf iftk worth |2&, and wr will nllow jon that amount for U in the following way. If *mt in a!t at our Iii/i# hit a rrg*lar aubm'riber /?? thin /'ff/vr imtardtat* /y after the la*t\nw fi?? jytin, togrthrr with thr namr ami athit r.*n of lnrfh *ul>, nbrr at.d im/H ?*, ami dnfrA of iwimi * from utmh thro arr rhi>j*rd. WK VULh AI.I.OW ?Of *2* TOWUtll TIIF. I1! KMlASlrof OIRK OK III'K NKW, LtKCK SIZK, ALI. STKH. KKI l? < 1 I TKlUi WORTH fio. Only one Feed Cutter t?? anyone person. this inaaesuie ca*n payment only viuior wis rcc?irutter. which will bo found as superior l<? any now in use as flio Aermotor was to anything in existence when it flr*t nppeared. and will drive from the field all competitor* and take mid hold the trade in Peed Cutters ft* the Aermotor, the Acrnu tor Steel Fixed and Steel Tilting Tower have in \\ imlniills and Towers. The talent which (lie Aermotor Company ha* shown in revising, revolutionizing, getting and holding the windmill l?u*inr*s of the world, can be turned to many fold* in the agricultural implement line ami it propose* lostiow w hat it can do by taking up a number of article*, making thcin of steel and putting Ihein in their final shape at a single stroke, a* wax done in there** of the Windmill and Steel Tow*r, and it pr<|?.fc t to furnish them at a greatly reduced price. This Fred ("utter, for the present, will only he furnished en the a'?ove terms TIIKSE TFNHH l.ltF. TO TIII8 8FRIFM OF 18 AIITKRTIRF.JIKXTS A CASH TALI K OK $'2S. We shall ofTer other articles for which we will acce| t these advertisements or pingle copies of them, in part payment. One svill l?e a Steel Hand Trurk. in which we feel a special pride in showing our skill as revisers and improvers of staple articles. Tho cash requirement with this will be ridiculously small. The third a<1verti*ement in this *ci if s will show a Steel Circular Saw and Frame, f>-r farm and sawyers' use It i* a ^^PERFECT FOLK lit If N ITII PKKKPCT SAFETY 01 AHIIS, and his a belter mw. THIS $40 KOV AM* KHHK. ? 11 I. UK 121VR N roil ?| , 4 Ml M V K ^^kcoriKH n.irrr.u as above or aiivf.iitihr. loralitiei where we can we ere going to make ^^^^^^lihcral offers accept c pies . f t \eryen hive any thought of using a windmill I his year ?r?M u.? nt ?nre, stiting ahit you think yon will need.whether ^^^^l'um|>ir:K or Geared, and if pottible will make you a liberal offer. The past year, though one of paralleled financial dis^turhance and business de ess ion was one of great ^B^^^^prosperdy to the Aertor The fart Aermotor !| ^^^^IrMrnrd Ihs WSlKR#. Coat raHfSStttBSmm wind I^iB*H|IBt1I1m1K Toner ^Vio the Consumer (Inr-^liih of Ms former Price has rej ^ot,n',f'1 f rf-l"v ,0 I Vi brought to its factory IT ' an enormous volume of ft A business. F.ven at tha vary IL B low price* at which wr sell |Jk 7n Steal W.ndnul!* ani St# ? l Iv f/m Tower*. made in the most perfect R /r manner, of the most petfert ma'Il/r ltu\\. ami l.tl.VtSI/jli.tHNt. W'j^^^^COJIPI,F.NON, 1IIIH PFKFM1IV ^ ^^^^PROFM nvi rvKR Y PORTION tip THE ni'.fAL, it i* possible to save a few cents on each outfit. an t the-e few on the enormous number of outfits are wholly satisfactory to the Aermotor Co . which ha* alwaye <l?eive-1 more pleasure fiorn the *ei\ireit has ren* dered a great number of people and from the pride it ? !:# in doing well whatever it puts it* hands to, than from the money it makes from its enterprise. This year, because it buys its material more cheaply end ex* perls an enormous increase in it* ever growing business. It offers Its pelran* a vast Increase In the quantity nnd quality ef meterlal employed In (be construction of Its Hteel Towers. The accompanying diagram, 2 12x21-2 shows the smallest angle that will be used by it in the corner pot?* of Towers, even for the A ft. wheel. For the Id ft we use 4*4 fhonsanda of ton* of Angles for Tower*, cold-rolled and sery straight and perfeat aro now being delivered at oar work*. Others who have a few tons, and therefore a year's supply, of 2x2 angle which they are using for A*fe , 10 ft . and e\en for 12 ft wheel*, null read thi* paragraph with surprise snd sorrow, since we have not previously given them any information concerning what we will use for 'ill The Aermotor Co to dieted'*:?.- ?*?<"' III PAH1I II rriiZZS f,.r me best essays written I y the wife, son or * fighter of a farmer or ?? a wiriunii'1. answering the question, If HI isHOCLD I I sr. AN AFRROTOIl I" For conditions ? f iijfi iiuuii>?f? ? ! |<rt/r% irnii i? r |>ar tieularsto the Aerrnotor Co , Chicago, or to its t ranche*, at San Krannseo. Xanaaa City, f.inenln, Neh . Sioti* City, Iowa, Mm naa|x*|i?( ilufTalo. ?.r f/? Park Placo. New York City. Aeriii<>t<t , Pumping *n?l (Irarnl um? price. All Steel, all Calvanue?IA fler Completion, dalivaittl free on rata at Cliirigu and shipped to any one, anewhare, at the following prices 8-ft. 825. I 2-ft. $50. 16-ft. CI 25. r\ :v * THE STORY OK LIFB. Sunlight and tbe morning dew, ; And tbo dazzling dawn of youth, Whon fancy paints tho boundless bias With promises of glorious hue Ana tho world sooms wallotl with tfuth. Sunlight and the noontide high And the wandering ways otroen j In search of ploasure far and nigh. They know not wliero its vnlloys llo, Nor how, nor why, nor when ! Hunliglit-nnd tho evening gale , And the dull twilight of age; Tho oyes grow dim, tho pulses fall, While mournfully tho dnruit winds wnll That blur life's blotted pagof Sunlight and the nftor glow On the cloudless brow of heaven 5 Though dark and drear the earth below No pain of life hia soul shall know, His sins are all forgiven ! ?M. M. Folsom, In Atlanta Journal, A liBAGUAKT IN LOVE. : ^ women had gone { I to tho drawing- < I room, and we had ^finished first cigars, w^on conversai&g tion struck on \ ^ matrimony. W o ^ were all married ^ men explaining how \ y J it happened. Tho 3 other guests had ^ told in turn their J little story in the v"^y free eontidenco ono ^ foels at the end of a perfect dinner. I had related my romance, and we now turned to our host. "Narlin, how did you win your wife?" 1 "It's a long story- began on hunt- ' ing pass in tho Arizona desert, crossed ilie wmer, and ended in Colorado. Light fresh cigars." + + + * + # I think it was the summer of '8G. Geronimo was not yet taken, and we had been chasing in our turn until, for lack of backs and feet, our horses wore lagging in tho race, and wo wore sot to watch water-holes in the San Simon, so polluted with alkali and arsenic a sensible savage would have shunned it, as my dyspopsia, which dates from that campaign, tells me I failed to do. Somehow the Geronimo campaign always reminded ine of a fox-hunt; the Indian scouts keeping their noses close to tho scent lik?> doors tec slow 10 ioreo iiie bush into tho open, while tho various troops, like hunters in different wind, held and lost the place which promised first at tho linish. If you know Arizona at all, you will recall how sharp and rocky arc the crests of tho divides; being lines of most resistance in this land of deep erosion, they retain tho sharp, jagged profile often seen in the snow-ice of mountain drifts as it disappears in early summer, llelow these scoops lie a colony of rounded foot-hjllR, receding and growing less until they end in , broken bowlder mesa, which, with numerous arroyos, fades into the soft, lovel adobe plain, and blends, as uu pUP ** * ' * ? | vui ' w v? I cloramn Join the rocks antl logs in the pit below you. The Indians preferred these sharp crests, which were for them both watch-towers and impregnable bastions. Occasionally they would strike across the valley, kill a rancher, and steel fresh ponies, and some troop would cut in and crowd them in the open till they took the next divido and met some barrier that balked the pursuers and forced on them a detour, while some other troop, through accident of locality, would tack and take the chosen place on the trail, giving for a few days its dust to the other pursuing columns. It was a weary stern-chase, performed under burning skies of cloudless blue in a thirsty land of heat intolerable. We had had our little spurt; had brushed them off the divide, and for three days led in the open across the valley to the Hierra Madre, where fresher horselleah cut in from our right and took from us tho placo of honor and left us, foot-sore and baoksore and winded, at the base of tho mountains, where we wore ordered u day's march back into tho valley, noar j tlie border, to guard water holes of < tho San Simon in tho sullen month of f August. The nights wcro getting bearable, but the day heat still held f on with tho stubborn insistence of a f Southern summer. Our camp was not ^ happy---the water was bad; our shelter-halves, but little thicker than j cheese-cloth, proved leaky sun-shades, ( and we reinforced them with our sad- f die-blankets; wo had no amusement j except to growl, wish wo wero in tho chase and wondering whose blooming H intellect had squatted us down among ^ Gila monsters and sand-flies to watch water so foul neither soil nor sun j would drink it. j. Sollint.lli llf Wfto rrr\i r? rt 4C r, ?" unpi'ull, iui fi the strain was telling on men's nerves, j Tlit> went her wan too hot for camp v idleness, and we were near the "line." / i was first sergeant, of L Troop Ihcn, ^ an<l. next to a coward or a thief, I j think I loathed a deserter. Wo were \ near the border of Mexico, where one c must not cross, but where smuggling n is permitted and vieo possible. p The men were getting irritable---I knew the signs, the tension was reach- t ing snapping point. I had boen think- f] ing of it all day. That evening John u IiCighton and I were working under p the orderly fly at the "rccords"---werc 0 posting Vaugn and Murray's "finals" c in the clothing and descriptive books, i, Vaugn was a corporal and Murray our blacksmith, who had been killed the j] week before on the day we pushed tbo v Apaches off the divide. We wero y crowding them to closely in the lower ^ pass, when a few bucks slipped off into the canon and nipped our pack train in rear. Wo had to quit pressing in front to save our train. It was a elever bit of work, and five bucks did it, killing two men for us, losing us ^ our game just as we were bagging it. t ? jjci^ucuii wns company cicrK, a (( talented, handsome fellow ; had served |( out in India. Tie had a chocring freshness and facility of expression, ( and spoke with the quick, falling inflection and directness of the English in speech one soquickly learns to love. ^ He was mechanically ruling double red lines in a hook where a life's account of services had been credited and closed, much as a bank-book is j( T i, - , fg| rulod when a statement is rendered ' from a balance struck. The words ' "Died" or "Deserted" placed in red ' ink in the space bolow showed the 1 "it:..., iii* ninvi.... Mir H?rvinn nhrti1 v I terminated. The tisual remark was 1 "Discharged by oxpiration term of 1 service" iu black ink. "ISergeaut, and whose will be the : next bloody 'D'?" asked Leighton, without a ring of feeling. "There'll be plonty of 'em, if this blooming heat continues and we re- 1 main iu this camp," I replied. Wo were working at this otHcial funeral in tho sultry summer night by 1 the unsteady light of lantern-candles, and were not feeling impressed oi 1 reverent. Leighton was in his undershirt, open at his handsome brown 1 throat. As ho leaned over the bookf at work, a lockot from his bosom fell the slack of its gold chain and struck the desk. 1 noticed it, and ho took it off, ' handing it so mo with indifferenoe. He < had opened the lockot, rovealiug the 1 portrait, which was that of a fresh ' young girl, ono of thoso sweet Eng- ' iisli faces, wliose charm is complexior * and expression of confidouco complete. 1 The eyes arrested yoti?pathetic, soft * brown eyes,so tender they seemed to re- ' proach, and, as you changed your point of view of the miniature, followed you 1 with thoir full, warm light. I have 1 Reen such itffcoiiunatu light only in the 1 brown eyes of faithful dogs watching thoso they love. I oeeiug my more man casual notice 1 of tlio portrait, Heighten added : "It's ' an old story ; not worth the telling; 1 I don't know why I keep it." Ho spoke with tho snmo absent interest wo were feeling over this work ' for the dead. It. struck 1110 as peculiar * that in a romance accomplished there ' should ho no trace either of bitterness o) remorse, only weary indifference. ' 1 f was so quickly fascinated by the face . | that Loighton's manner annoyed me, ( and 1 ?1 i?l not ask for the story. I'os- j libly overheat makes men irritable, for somehow I rcsontcd this careless follow wearing about him a faco liko ^ that, with less interest than lie wore . Iiis spurs. I did not then notice the resemblance of tho faco to Lcighton's. I stopped abruptly and thought of lcscrtion, changing tho conversation , to this, tho subject of my day's mus- . iug. j "Loighton, something's got to be j lono to relieve the pressure. I know | ;ho lieutenant would liko to do so. He t feels the pulse of this camp and knows the symptoms, ltnt what esc he do r? , ins orders to remain here are impcra- j kive, and ho can't 'pass' us across the < inc." T "Hllllt.ilKT leave. " lntKrliml "Huuting leave, then, let it be," 1 } replied, "with no questions asked as :o our game or preserve, though I can f ell what yours will be, you young ] rap! To-morrow make out a hunting j >ass for six." Leigliton was humming } i catchy service ballad that had np- t tearcd in London music-halls the year ? lefore, and did not roply. { Next morning, I presented with tlio cport four-days' huuting pass for six ? nou. Tho lieutenant dipped his pen u tho ink and held it in contemplation 1 ",r ft.1 "v'\_f-l- "1"'"'. r ihiilfC, TbTfinijfg -TuuTXglnKniy aoToss he lovel plain. Then, with quick de;ision: "I wish, sergeant, you and * Licighton would take hunting pass, < md let no complications arise." Ho J tigned the pass, adding our names to ' he text. Tho following evening found us all n Correlitos. After dinner, while ; imoking fragrant Vuolla Abajo of the 'Zona Libra," I strolled through tlio larrow streets of this olil Spanish own, watching tlio wealth of a west;rn sunset, where the after-slow was ast fading. High above the nioun- 1 ain-tops lay great billows of russet. 1 lame, with crests like the muno of a i vind-funuod prnirio fire. Lower in c he nindro spread the pure deep purple t >f southern twilight, while from the i bot-liills came the soft evening breeze t )oru after the heat of day. Even ? ounds fell on the ear so gently you t bought that before reaching you they 1 nust huve loitered to bathe in tlio i tccquia and caught some of its mur- t our. i On tlio i>laza T passod two groups of f onirades, one seokiug solace in bran- ? ly, the other, fortune in roulette--- i ilensant pastimes that might lead to 1 'complications" while money lasted, i ind would bear light watching. 1 I walked on to tlio Jardin do Oro, t i small public park, where serenade . iro inspired ami listeners stroll or seat c hemsclves on benches or the grass. p Only those who hnvo suffered the c lent and glaro of a campaign in the 1 lesert can form any idea ol the pliysi- 1 >al luxury of groen trees and of water, a was seatod listening to the soft In- n lian Spanish as it fell about mo in \ low ehnttcr. From afar it mingled nth tho murmur of the fountain. c What a contrast this scono to tho 1: lot camp I had just loft, whore wore 1 icard only tho whirr of tho rattlo- i nako or the insistent cooing of tho onoly turtle-ilovo?monrnful sounds c vhioh seem to add to tho vibrant heat, t ibovo tho mountains lay a zono of c roublod whito, from which tho moon 1 tad now risen into the full, uppor i due, causing the leaves ovorhoad to c ast shadows in arabosquo on tho grass t t my fcot, whore, as tho night breozo * tirred tho foliage, it wove marvelous f icures in trefoil ?.nd frneerv for fannn o piny with as with those made by n lames in ft grate. Now it was the lines h f a Gothic window, seen in nil old c ftthodrnl ftlmost forgotten, nnd now, v n grander scale, tho design of deli- l nto drawn-work reonllod from my H ady's ohnmber. t lvcighton was there, mantilla beside j, iim. I could only half see tho re- n ealod ovnl of the face, but tho figure t ras slight and pretty, for I caught its t raceful outline later when they h assed me. g Next evening, at a baile, Leighton t resented mo to Panchita. Together A hey were dancing?he and this pretty uimal, with eyes for him alone. In he desert so rapid is love's kindling, o quick and full its flame, no charred r half-burnod brands are here left on v >ve's altar. It is consumed, and what o iirvives must spring, phmnix-like, c rom lire or else descend from heaven. A After the dnnza ended, Leighton '1 ras standing in shirt-sleeves near b 'anehita, with the collar of his jersey si pen at the throat- -a trick of his that o mile 111c suspect that ho Ivad seen g ervico in the navy. As ho leaned over t] or, Trtachita'a eye caught sight of tho, i ( ? ooket chai^ and he removed the 1 ooket, opened it, end bended it to tier; this tfmo not indifferently, but X witli *ha itri^c of p?lx,ovl j^qucoi. I wee watching Penohite closely es ?he gazed feeoineted by the portrait, 1 and I sew her tremble. Only as I read tier lace then hy whet I now know, oen 1 tell how well it expressed ell that hopeless sense of loss which comes with the abandonment of things loved C or desired. For an instant her eyes ^ showed the rage a child sometimes 0 feels for an inanimate object, when that object has hurt it. And I thought -i 11 t 1. ii.~ i i. ?i, it. ii. _ h suu wuiuu ux una mc iwivut p butu tuu ^ woman conquered, and sho smiled as y nhe retutned it. v From that moment her abandon- .. inent toward Leighton was complete : liergayety and grace became exquisite, R while a look from him would lend her. ^ ' 'Oh, you Eastern dervish of hearts!" ^ [ exclaimed to myself, as Panahita left ^ aim and skipped to get a handful of :ascn rones and then returned, crush- n ng the pretty tinsel spangles in a s ihower over his brown head and throat. v ihc flitted about him with the grace c jf a bird, and her eyes never left liim. f She was becoming intoxicated with her n )wn movements i her cheeks were j 'lushed with bright fover spots, and ? licr eyes shone like stars. On and on j I hoy danced, seeing only each other, y and sho looked jir if ?hc Could d?SCC tj [orover. , At length Leighton proposed thoy y ?o, and she obeyed his wish as if fi hypnotized or impelled to doit; and, H ignoring her duenna, they left to- y cjetber. y ***** * n Tho noxt week I ruled Loighton's t iHlcir.l epitaph iu lue Li Troop records B thus: "Deserted from huntiug yiass y August 18, 188G." y You see, the easo was an awkward y me. The night of the baile ho had ,] been stubbed in the park. I found liis j body t? jre, and my comrades wero y nbout ro string up Morales, Panchita's ] locnl admirer, for the stabbing, when 0 r stoppod them. y "Hold on, boys," I said; "rcmom- j l?cr I liromiseil the lieutenant no 'com- .1 ilicatious.' " n Ho Leigliton becamo officially a "deserter," anil I kept my word. t Besides, I doubt if stringing up c vould have beou fair to Moralep, for ^ ivheu I found Leighton's body, the r ockot was lying on the ground besido v t. Tho clasp was open and the portrait j >lood-stained and mutilated, us if by j he point ?>f a dagger. \ I think Loighton h?'f know what L?c -j vas doing when ho flauntod that por- ? rait at Panchita?ho waa a careless ;liap, and loved danger in a way to v vin any wonmu's heart. Put you soo jj t was his first affair in this land, and t, le was mistaken in their temper. c How could I let his rocord remain :o? Well, what could I do? Besides, j, height on was not hia right name, as I j bund out aftei ward when reading liis v lomo letters to get his relatives' ad- j Iress. His name was Jaok Langhorn, ? ind that locket the rascal showed me j :outained a portrait of his youngest 0 lister. I found that out in writing to ? lis family, whom I told that Langhorn 1 vas kiilcd by the Anaelies in the fight 1 it Chirachuea Fash?that occurred two v rrin uvsi'u. ^ r ? Thrco years later Jack's sister camo t o the States, where I met her iu Col>ra<lo, the year after I left the service md made the strike at Harqtia Ilala. >lie is Mrs. Narlin now, and you met ler at dinner. But remember, she cnows only half the story of her permit, and Jack Langhorn was killed >y the Apaches. Let us join the ladies. ?C. Overton, in Argonaut. Ilorses With Long Tails. I seo that there is again an attempt icing made to introduce the fashion of ong-tailed horsos. I doubt very much f it will succeed. Fashion has prnctisally removed the ruison d'etre for liese caudal appendages. Tho workng horse or tho horso in the country, )f course, needs his tail to protect himiclf from tho Hies. The fashionable ;oaeli horse these days, on the other land, has more careful attention than lsed to bo bestowed upon a child a "ew years ago. When in tho stable ho s carefully blanketed to protect him rom the coin draughts 01 from the H mnoyance.of the insect*, and when l?o- j ng driven is protected from the Hies h >y the driver, especially if ho be of a <\ lcrvous disposition and easily worried j >y the pests. In fact, the fashionable j earns are almost uninterruptedly un- ] ier tho most careful supervision. The h mly trouble is that when the horses *] jet old and broken down and are turned \ >vor to the tender mercies of some H mskster or horse car line, then the ] aek of care will lay them opon to the i ttaeks of the horso flies, and on this v account the objection to docking is ,i 'cry evidont. K Every one who is wealt hy enough to , ut off his horses' tails should bo < uunano enough to blow the animals' ^ trains out when their days of usoful- ,, men in 1* trvli 11 fo fturt * Ar to thocrueltyof tho docking proess, it iH not as bad as tho humaniarian would lead one to suppose. I >nco bought a team of dock-tailed lorsen at a big auction Ralo, and it was j lot until tho bucccding day that tho , onclimaii discovered that, tho operaion was of so rocent a dato that tho j tumps were still raw. Tlio horsessuf- u ored in no way nervously, as far as j, :ould bo soon, nor did it nffeot their ippctitos or general behavior in tho ( lightest. Old cavalry officers will j, all to mind in tho battles of tho late var that it was not unusual to see j torsos with broken legs, or with a hoof hot off, grazing around aftor tho batlo comparatively comfortable. There | s a good deal of difforonco between tho lorvous organization of a horse and ? hat of a man. Docking has objections- 1 de features, it is true, but tho custom ias undoubtedly como to stay. The ;rowth of tho fad in England and on he Continent proves it.?New York Inil and Express. Different Taste* in thins. In guns tho old-stylo Hint, locks, ritli stocks carved and painted 111 olcrs and v/itli barrels painted in peuliar hieroglyphics, arc Bold to tho .rubs and African trilios in quantities, 'ho South American takos .a dainty arrcl of tho smallest gauge, with tho locks also elaborately carved and f rnamentcd, Tho European huva a , mi exquisitely linishod and inlaid in ' lacings of gold,?Chicago Herald* . MMKNSE HERDS OF DEER.6 'HB "BARREN OBnnvng" O*"*" A-L/ix O WARK WITH GAME. 'wenty Acres Covered With tli? Animals Standing Thickly Together ?A Veritable Hunters' Paradise. JB. TYRELL, of the Geological Survey, and his party, says au _ Ottawa correspondent of tho Now York World, tell marvelus stories about tbo game they saw u their recent journey through the ;rottt "barren grounds" of Canada's forth west. No one dreamed that j lauada possessed such immense herds >f doer as were secu by Mr. Tyrell's >arty. "The sight at times was inarvelons," aid Mr. Tyrell. "Whou wo reached ho edgo of tho woods north of Lake Lrthahascn, in about tho beginning of August, we commoncod to meet a few loer ovory day. One evening, just iter going into camp, a deer was eeu standing on a little island not cry far away, and my brother went ?ver and shot it. It was very poor in losh; nevertheless wo found it undo pretty good meat. On the folowing day, as we were paddling along i moderately large lake, one of my lalf bioeds drow my attention to what le t hought to bo the moving seiiio listaucoaway, and on looking through ay glass I saw that it was an immonso lord of reindeer. Wo equipped ourelves with firearms, puddled ashoro .nd walked toward them. Thero were housnrds in the herd. They wero in anus 01 two ur turoo nuiuimi eacu, iml crowded as close us possible ogethcr. It was presumed tlicy did o iu order to partially escape the toruro of the black flies. Walking iu >etwoon a couple of bands wo opened ire, and they stampeded iu every lircction. Onoof the party was obiged to tako refuge behind somo heavy ?rush to prevent the deer from tramping upon him. Wo killed about seventy it them. Many were too poor for us, >ut tho fatter ones furnished rich, uicy meat. Tho ehoieo meat of each leer, when dried, would average only bout twelve pounds. "After remaining thore two or hreo days, during which we wore ngaged drying the meat, wo started ukiug photographs. We could walk ight into tho midst of the deer. As re did so they would push a little way o each side to allow us to pass, aud hen close up t-lio ranks immediately ichind m Tho sight was a mazing, .'hero we stood, surrounded on every ide by the deer, swaying their long, | lender horns to and fro. As far as | ro could see thero were countless lerds, covering about twenty acres ach, aud standing as thick as they ould mass together. "As we proceeded further north 1 icniH were constantly met with grazug on the sides of the hills. The t feather was something like that of fovombor here, but tho ground was lways wot. In tho summer tho deer ivo on grass and in tho winter chiefly >u moss. After tho month of August ro shot very few, tho old ones wo saw >oiug wild and almost unapproachable, n the fall and winter they mftko thoir ray to the edge of tho wooflh in order shelter from tho tearful gales hat blow over the barren ground. "Thoso deer differ considerably rom the ones in this part of tho counry. They are about tho height of he Virginia deer, but somewhat touter and heavier; their horns are nrgor and more branching. They hod thoir coats in July, and at that ime are often very rough in appo.ariUcg and j>oor in flesh ; but towards ho end of August, when they get their low coats, they begin to pick up and atton. Their skius are good and rarm, but the hair, being brittle, >reaks off and renders it valueless as ur.?' uisnrug aim oilier Merits. Ginseng is alow-growing herbaceous dant, with a single stem about a foot ugh or less, on the top of which there ire three petioles or leaf stalks, each if these bearing live leaflets, hence hi< specific name of this species, viz., iralia ijuinqucfolia. The flowers are >r ml need on ft short stem abovo the vhorl of terniina! leaves, and are small and of greenish white color, and hese are succeeded in autumn by small clusters of bright red berries. L'lie roots are thick and fleshy, the r.rgest about the size of a man's hitml), but tapering to a point at the ower end. They have a spicy and onicwhat agreeable aromatic taste. The best time to gather these roots is n the fall and winter, for at this sea1011 they are firm and solid, and their ocatioii can lie readily determined bv he old stalks and withered leaves, L-liif.il rnmahi ... .. .1:1 i l -- % i viiiiiiii lit | r\jr* it I < r 11 11.1111 111 lit 11 !own by snow or rain. There is :? teudy Mini increasing demand for the tried roots, the price advancing as ho supply decreases from year to ear in our forests. I?argc quantities re gathered in the mountninsof North Jarolinw.?New York Sun. A hunt Quinine. Of the 7,000,000 ounces ??f quinine nnually produced in the world, the Jnitod States uses M, 100.000, or nearly ne-lmlf of the entiro output. There re eighteen ehineliomi or quinine faeories in the world. This comprises ne establishment in Holland, two in iUglnnd, two in Italy, three in France, our in the United States and six it lerniany. Jf I am not mist at n there t some experimental work In the same ino being conducted in Jlussia.?St. Amis Republic. To build up both solid tlcsh and strength ifter grip, pneumonia, fevers and other prostrating diseases, there is nothing to >qual Dr. Pierco's Golden Medical Discovery. PROSTRATION FOLLOWING GRIP. Mrs. Rcudrn OAnnrrr, .dfnHES^ Ktnj Ucoi(j<i C. //., Va., AMBA writes: "I was token with grip which finally sir resulted in pneumonia. mam ?Xb Wh* prostrated for threo ~ TOi mont lis. Had a terrible mW 10551 cough and wnsemaciated NK2 n^\IHInnil vnrv tvoob Woe t< at SaEcl m lv ? drifting Into "quick eonrjBBi ( j gumption." Tho doctor ' * "Vmffs jsve iiiu medicines nil ypCT ff'fMU the time, i grew wcp.kci. TTTtfflbi" ^nrny "fl ndvloed cod liver oil emulsion. I took two Br bottles of If without any relief. I lind pnln In my ~'"A?r left ahoulder un.d back. Mrs. Oarrett. I wroto you. und you prescribed your '( olden ifedi?Al Diseovery.' I took only one bottlo lxv orc I felt better. After two bottles I could sit ip, and felt I bad been saved from the grave, increased rapidly in flesh And strength. * I npHE U. S. Governn 0'* " reported, after an P| different brands, tha ing Powder is absoli in ^strength, and sup Kjfc ROYAL BAKING POWDER COM PA* TTISE W0R1W.s Forgetting is forgiving. A light heart lives long. Marriage is love's sacrifice. Dou't try to pump out the sea. A good deed needs no applause. A kiss is n song without words. Covctousness hoards itself poor. Sunshino is tho leaven of living. Ijovc teaches us tho pleasure of pain. All truo love is grounded on cstoom. Friendship depondslargolyon funds. Speech i? ? deformity iu some people. A woman's smile can makoa burdon light. Ijovo is contagious, epidemic and incurable. What tho rosebud promisos it does not fulfill. You cuuuoi play false, and yet rightly win. Help tho deserving, not all thoso who appeal. It is wonderful bow noar concoit in to insanity. Suspicion paves the road to misunderstanding. It is not tho longoat lifo that has tho most in it. People arc so much alike they should bo better friends. When two ride tho same horse, ono must ride behind. Lovo aud necessity aro tho only cures for laziness. It is seldom that a woman thinks so without saying so. We rarely And as much in a dollar as wo think thero is. (irnmi ni<l C'lovrr Herd. Tlii largest grower of Urass and Clover Sew* In the world is Salzer, LaCrosse, Wis. Ove* 50 hardy varieties, with lowest prices! Special low freight to Now York, Pa. and ths East. If you wii.i. cut this out and sknd it with 14c postage to the John A. .Salzer Seed Co., I>a Urosso, Wis., you will receive eleven packages crass and clover sorts and his mammoth farm seed catalogue; full of good things for the farmer, tho gardener ami tl.e citizen. A A nARnKi. of Missouri apples Is worth mors money than tho samo quantity ot Florida oranges. Ifow's This t Wo offer Ono Hundred Hollars Reward foe any raso of Catarrh that cannot bo cured b' I Halls Catarrh ('ure. F. J.Chknkt iVOo., Props., Toledo, 0. We, tho undersigned, havo known F. J. Cliofioy for I ho last 15 years, and believe him perfectly hnnoralilo in all business transactions and financially alilo to carry out any obligation mmle by their firm. >'k?t Tkuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Waliiino, Kinvan & Makvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. HaM's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly ii|w>n tho blood and micoussiirfaces of t lie system. Price, 75c. per bottle, bold Ny nil Druggists. Testimonials free. Tiif. Routh African gold mince are Increasing groatly In productivenetp. Brown's Iron Bitters enros Dyspepsia, Malarla. Biliousness and flencral Debility. (lives Strength, aids Digestion, tones the nerves? creates appetite. Tho best tonic for Nursing Mothers, weak women and children. Ii.i.inois railroads pnld dividends last yett of $29,712,901, against $25,327,615 in 1W1. Foil ('oriiiis \xi> Throat Turn"nt.as use "ibvuiiiV llrourhial /Vorfirs." They relieve all Throat irritations caused by Cold or use of the voice. PnAKiE fires arc doing much damago.in Oklahoma. .1 ipnncnc Tamil Powder, Criiuine. A large hox mailed for 10 cents. l>npp Drug Co., 1'IiiluiU-liiliiit, I'ju Twin sons of Charles J. Frost wero drowned nt Joliet, III. Malaria cured and eradicated from the system by Brown's Iron Hitters, which enriches tho blood, tones the nerves, Mils digestion. Acts like a clmrin on iK>rsons in general ill lioH.lth, givlng'new energy and strength. Thk depression in Canada is greater than for thirty years. Peecbam's lMlls Instead of sloshy mineral waters. Bcocbara's?no others. lift eta. a box. I Young I Mothers | 1TIU111I S, Robs Confinement of It5 " After using one bottle of ' '>& but little pain, and did not expci usual in such cases.?Mrs. Ann j|/ Sent by express, charges prepaid, o V; Sold by ail Druggists. Boc n? n ii^ift^rsncccc i 11 inn 1 To meet the present Hard HA Kll Times an Farmer* we linilU will sell ti em direct for cash X I RS C O xo.xt Fertilisers at tbe fol( I V f Q 'loivinx lowest wholesale CCDTII I7CDC Fertilizers for corn, cotrrn I LILLnO Iod,bi1 reanut# at 91.1.40. I kll I ikikkiiv Kertlllaere for trackliiK Hend livs Vt-rem crops and potatoes at $14. poHlnae Nianips for Fertilizers for tobaeco, rlrrulnr. oats* fruit at 91 5 per ten. W. S. Powell A Co.. Fertiliser Mfrs., Baltimore. Md. 3l IS WORLD'S fair AtvAnna yasras. TWO MEDALS C&SQlti&Sn end oiik Diploma for Itrauir, ^ KL ' fffl fctrewrlh and ?'he?pno??.ovrr _. f?*l i&H- .Vi.OM) ol lliese vehicles .hnve B,BgrrggBKIT\ lieen ?(il<l direct to (he people /\BWwpRBW%y-' T semi nt once for our ronoplet V^^-Ti$^cAp9vv 7 r*,,1'OKUe 1 )' ' 9' every kind * *KjJLV ^"<7.L> irhlrlr.t hnrnrM.KlnobuC A" Or*d?, #i><>. of testimonials, they ere free /1AJANCE CARRIAGE CO., CINCINNATI, 0> lent Chemists have & i examination of the ^ t the ROYAL Bak- ^ || Jtely pure, greatest |l A??i/vii 4-/V 0% 11 IRM ci iui iw an uiiici 3. . jm The Humming llird at Homo. While spending the winter in California, writes Frank Ford, in the Magazine of Natural Science, I made my first acquaintance with Madam Hummingbird "at home." In the first place the locatiou could not hove boen improved on. Just picture in your mind a lawn dotted with orange, lemon, fig and palm trees, with hero and thore a giaut century pluut, or bunch of pampas grass, and no end of flowers. While a cypress hedge, overshadowed by stately eucalyptus and pepper treeH, separated the lawn from the street. One day while gathering oranges, I wuh startled by the rapid and Riiirrv dartim- of a Imtnmiiiir bird near my faee, which lot! mc to look closely iu that part of tho tree, which resulted after a little search in tho discovery of niy ilrst humming bird's neat. It was placed on a twig not as largo as a lead pencil, on one of thi> lower limbs of the orango tree, and it was so covered with lichens the same color as the bark of tho tree that it was difficult to llnd it again even after I knew about whore it was. Tho nest is about tho sizo of tho burr oak acorn cup, built almost entirely of tho feathery plumes of the pampas grass, covered with green lichens, and all hold together, and to the limb, with something groatly resembling spider wob. Within this "marvel of construction" were two semi-transparent eggs, almost too small to describe,and my efforts to use tho blowpipe on them blow them all to smithereens. Beforo taking tho nest, I visited Madam Hummingbird several times, and nearly always found her at home. Sho nover left tho uesl but a few minutes at a time. KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live better than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the neeas of physical being, will attest the value to nealth of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleasant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect laxative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels without weakening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. 8yrup of Figs Is for sale by all drugcrista in 60c and SI bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Go. only, whose name 1b printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. * WORTH $100. THE LOVER'S SECRET ALPHABET. 11 is invalunldc to nil who wish to carry on secret oorrcs|?onttenee. As mysterious to those without a key as (Jteefc to n Digger Indian. :to cts. per copy. M<p. |ht set. Order i? set to-day. Address l'AI ACK I'lMII.ISllINO CO., Ho* til. Mountain City, Tenn. We Offer You a Remedy x Which Insures 5afety to a Life of Mother and Child, f irs' Friend" I Pain, Horror and Risk. jfj Mothers' Friend,' I suffered rience that weakness afterward it he Gage, 13axter Springs, Kas. A n receipt of price,11.50 per bottle. ? >k to Mothers mailed free. _./? iRADFIELO REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, 6a. 2 oc.nIi. never knernof hard llaia.^ZajMUfliUi Try H for 1894 and fx* liappr tfpkjr*. *f FannBardnlntho world. llab fit for nan la Mdayannd on?^EMflKHMS|^| fue oloiio, Sc. tor poeface. BgHQiDflH Alffita ^?- T7, L, DOUGLAS 93 SHOB equals custom work, costing from e.rmnnW S< to $6, best value for the inoa?< f <Cf\CBA\^ 7? the world. Name andprici WPTT m KtimDfd on ihr Kntlom. Itvsni {-??r?. p?7t"warrantr<i. Take do fSHSSWK^ ir*2. ?!!Li*J how to or. der by mail. Postage free. Ym can get the bc>| bargains of dealer* who push our ahoes, H. N. U.-~ SI Bort Coi<*h J) y rupY^Taaie s (*>od* Use ^3 Dy In time. Hold by druKgiau. |H qflgaEiaa^^ \